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House Purgatorio

House Purgatorio

ONE ONE RIGA

24/02/2017

"Ma qui la morta poesì resurga, o sante Muse, poi che vostro sono"
/Dante Alighieri/

House Purgatorio is an event series that dares to combine the seemingly guilty pleasures of electronic dance music culture with the aesthetics and conceptual oeuvre of classical art and literature. With a direct reference to Dante and the Divina Commedia the creators of the series use raw, dark, black and white imagery and musical manipulations to create a world within a world – a neatly structured isle of the classical within the tempest of spontaneity in a club setting and vice versa – the alive and daring in a world of where you thought you knew what the owls seem to be.

Patris performances combine the sound of a classical instrument - the cello, field recordings, analog and digital synthesis. These layers of melody, drone and rhythm create a sort of impressionist soundscape – a pulsating chaos, naturally whirling and alive yet controlled, direct and industrial.

DEE creates shapes for her live video artistry inspired by organic matter yet she builds it from scratch, creating an otherworldly feel – unique to her performance and intended to take one outside this world and into the House Purgatorio where shapes and architecture of the classical meet the digital, the controlled meets the accidental. All black and white, all live, new every time.

In the hands of Elvi Soulsystems – the conceptual initiator of House Purgatorio – house music and music in general transforms into different shapes, these can be sounds you should be familiar with but they seem deconstructed, it can be his own inventions alongside other things. It is always a journey that includes pits and dragons as well as princes and princesses and elvenkind if you will. Best experienced in sync with the visuals, not replicable in a recorded format.

In 2018 ONE ONE are continuing established series curated by the club in collaboration with some of the most interesting electronic dance music artists and disc jockeys in Latvia with the intent to create and participate in cutting-edge urban culture. The club has recently opened its second premises dubbed -UNDERGROUND – right under the established venue referred to as the -CLUB. By opening its doors to a wide range of events whilst focusing on the development of a dance music culture ONE ONE is set to surprising it's loyal audience and also – those yet to discover the world hidden under the shine of mainstream culture.

Early bird tickets on Resident Advisor: 5€
Tickets on door: 7€